Love Is…

Yes that is love but is it healthy love? Someone said to make a person happy, be happy yourself. That works if the love is mutual. So the deeper your feelings are linked the deeper the love?

The love of a parent for a child can be very one way. The elder living a vicarious life through the happiness of the younger. The young seeking approval and direction to be happy but unaware of the needs of the adult, giving happiness just by being happy.

The love of friendship? Just shared interests and experiences?

The love of an object or place? It makes you happy or thinking about it makes you smile.

Love is giving smiles or making happy? I know it’s more complex than that. I could write many more words and still not get there.

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4 thoughts on “Love Is…”

Jake,
I have just begun doing these challenges/prompts and so I have been reading over other peoples. In my attempt on this issue I discussed the capacity to love an Idea/Object. Yours so far is the only one other than mine that I have read so far that seems to agree with me on this. Do you believe, that the love of a concept/idea can be considered on par with the love of a person? In my example I used a political Ideology as an ideal to love, and my childhood collection of baseball cards as an object to love. Can these concepts of love rise to the same level as love of a person?

I had a quick read through of your post and it is interesting. I’m not sure if the love of a concept or idea is on a par with the love of a person. It’s a different kind of love or is it just liking something a lot on through to the level of obsessing about the object or idea. It is not possible for me to make an object or idea happy nor will an ‘it’ ever love you back. I might love my country or a team but it will never reciprocate in the same way as a person. I would have to say I don’t know.

It is such an up in the air question. The reason I addressed the question in the manner I did is due to my aversion to what I call Magical Thinking. To me, Magical Thinking is concepts or beliefs whose individual terms cannot be separated. There are certainly items which require this type of thought, Love for instance, but that does not make me feel less comfortable with it.